Events
the first bombing of pearl harborthe soviet union gets invadedFrance and Britain declared war on GermanyFrance and the neutral Low Countries. Luxembourg is occupied on May 10; the Netherlands surrenders on May 14; and Belgium surrenders on May 28. On June 22, France signs an armistice agreement by which the Germans occupy the northern half of the country and the entire Atlantic coastline. In southern France, a collaborationist regime with its capital in Vichy is established.Italy enters the war. Italy invades southern France on June 21.The Soviet Union forces Romania to cede the eastern province of Bessarabia and the northern half of Bukovina to the Soviet Ukraine.The Soviet Union occupies the Baltic States on June 14–18, engineering Communist coup d’états in each of them on July 14–15, and then annexing them as Soviet Republics on August 3–6The air war known as the Battle of Britain ends in defeat for Nazi Germany.Germany, Italy, and Japan sign the Tripartite Pact.The Italians invade British-controlled Egypt from Italian-controlled Libya.Italy invades Greece from Albania on October 28Slovakia (November 23), Hungary (November 20), and Romania (November 22) join the Axis.Bulgaria joins the Axis.Germany, Italy, Hungary, and Bulgaria invade and dismember Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia surrenders on April 17. Germany and Bulgaria invade Greece in support of the Italians. Resistance in Greece ceases in early June 1941.The leaders of the terrorist Ustasa movement proclaim the so-called Independent State of Croatia. Recognized immediately by Germany and Italy, the new state includes the province of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Croatia joins the Axis powers formally on June 15, 1941.Periods
holocaustgerman attack on poland
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